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- the inventive device described in the instant application is a novel musical instrument.
- the Fuccion is designed to be primarily used in music performances as both a bass guitar and an electric guitar. This will provide the user with the ability to play music within a band or performance both as bass and as guitar.
- the Fuccion goes beyond just combining two different instruments because the final result it is in fact a novel concept.
- the Fuccion is a new musical instrument that enables a musician to play bass and guitar parts at the same time, simultaneously. That is: One player, one instrument, two parts together. Which means bass and guitar at the same time.
- a multi-neck guitar is a guitar that has multiple fingerboard necks. They exist in both electric and acoustic versions. Although multi-neck guitars are quite common today, they are not a modern invention. Examples of multi-neck guitars and lutes go back at least to the Renaissance.
- the most common type of multi-neck guitar is the double neck guitar, of which the most common version is an electric guitar with twelve strings on the upper neck, while the lower neck has the normal six.
- Combination six-string and bass guitar are also used, as well as a fretless guitar with a regular fretted guitar, or any other combination of guitar neck and pickup styles.
- fretless guitar with a regular fretted guitar
- guitar neck and pickup styles There are also acoustic versions. Two necks allows the guitarist to switch quickly and easily between guitar sounds without taking the time to change guitars.
- One of the more common combinations is where one neck of a double-necked guitar is set up as for a 6 string guitar and the other neck is configured as a 4 string bass guitar.
- Guitarist Pat Smear of the Foo Fighters utilizes a double-necked guitar during live performances (bass guitar top neck, six-string electric guitar bottom neck) in order to perform Krist Novoselic's bass part in the song “I Should Have Known,” from the album Wasting Light, in addition to his own duties. Rickenbacker International Corporation and Gibson Guitar Corporation in the USA have both manufactured production models of these configurations in the past.
- a less common configuration has a 12 string guitar neck combined with a 4 string bass guitar neck: Geddy Lee of Rush is well known for using the 4/12-string Rickenbacker 4080/12 production model live in the 1970s.
- Each section could be separated and re-attached to create a variety of twin-neck combinations, with either the 6-string or one of the two 12-strings on the top, and the 4-string bass on the bottom, and there was a matching lower-body section which could be attached to the 6-string and 12-string main units, which created a single complete guitar when these were not attached to the bass.
- Electric bass guitars with two or more necks have existed at least since the 1970s. Some basses have three or more necks, but usually upon custom order only.
- a double-necked bass guitar can be used for multiple tuning (e.g., B-E-A-D on one neck and E-A-D-G on the other, etc.); combining fretted and fretless necks; combining necks with different numbers of strings, etc.
- Double neck basses with an 8-string bass neck (double courses, tuned in octaves like a 12-string guitar) on top and a 4-string bass neck on the bottom.
- Double neck basses with various other combinations exist, for example: four string and five string bass; four string and six string bass; etc.
- Pro Electric has produced a quadruple-necked instrument some have called the “ultimate bluegrass axe,” not entirely without sarcasm.
- This solid-body electric instrument combines 6-string guitar, 4-string bass, 8-string mandolin, and 5-string banjo necks into one (heavy) package.
- the National Guitar Museum unveiled the “Rock Ock”, which it calls the world's largest fully playable multi-necked stringed instrument.
- the 8-necked guitar weighs 40 pounds, has 154 frets, 51 strings, and 8 necks.
- the eight instruments are a mandolin, ukulele, 6-string, fretless bass, standard bass, 12-string, baritone guitar, and a 7-string.
- the guitar was designed by noted artist Gerard Huerta and built by Dan Neafsey of DGN Custom Guitars.
- the guitar hardware was supplied by Mojo Musical Supply while the instrument itself was commissioned by the National Guitar Museum.
- Luthiers seem, however, to be undeterred by either practicality, or by the limits of human anatomy, and have produced instruments with even more necks.
- Macari's Music of London commissioned a six neck guitar (“the beast”), similar in design to Nielsen's five neck.
- Yamantaka Eye of the Japanese noise/rock band Boredoms has toured with a seven neck guitar (the “Sevena”).
- This instrument has four necks on one side and three on the other, and is mounted on a stand and played with drumsticks as a percussion instrument.
- the most necks placed on a single guitar is 12, apparently first achieved in 2002 by Japanese artist Yoshihiko Satoh.
- the inventive device described in the instant application is a novel musical instrument.
- the Fuccion is an innovative new concept designed to be primarily used in music performances as both a bass guitar and an electric guitar. This will provide the user with the ability to play music within a band or performance both as bass and as guitar.
- the Fuccion goes beyond just combining two different instruments because the final result is in fact a novel concept.
- the Fuccion is a 10 String Instrument having a 6 string guitar formation above a 4 string bass formation designed to play both parts simultaneously. This is due to the innovative body design which situates the necks in this unique staggered position allowing the right hand to both strum the guitar with the thumb and hammer out the bass notes together with four fingers. Both necks are reachable in a single hand span.
- the principal object of the present invention is to provide a novel and versatile musical device to be used in performances.
- FIG. 1 is a front elevation view of one of the preferred embodiments of “Fuccion” in accordance with the teachings of the present invention.
- FIG. 2 is a bottom elevation view of “Fuccion” of FIG. 1 .
- FIG. 3 is a top elevation view of “Fuccion” of FIG. 1 .
- FIG. 4 is a rear elevation view of “Fuccion” of FIG. 1 .
- FIG. 5 is a left side elevation view of the “Fuccion” of FIG. 1 .
- FIG. 6 is a right side elevation view of the “Fuccion” of FIG. 1 .
- FIG. 7 is a side perspective detail view of one of a separate preferred embodiments of “Fuccion” in accordance with the teachings of the present invention.
- FIG. 8 is a top detail perspective view of “Fuccion” of FIG. 7 .
- FIG. 9 is a top detail perspective view of “Fuccion” of FIG. 7 .
- FIG. 10 is a front detail elevation view of the body of the “Fuccion” of the present application.
- FIG. 11 is a back detail elevation view of the body of the “Fuccion” of the present application.
- FIG. 12 is a diagram showing how important it is for the body of the FUCCION of the present application to basically be constituted by two isoceles triangles overlapping on one of their corners: the overlapping region is in between the upper tip of the lower triangle and the left side bottom corner of the upper triangle.
- the inventive device described in the instant application is a novel musical instrument.
- the Fuccion is designed to be primarily used in music performances as both a bass guitar and an electric guitar. This will provide the user with the ability to play music within a band or performance both as bass and as guitar.
- the Fuccion goes beyond just combining two different instruments because the final result it is in fact a novel concept.
- the Fuccion is a 10 String Instrument having a 6 string guitar formation above a 4 string base formation designed to play both parts simultaneously. This is due to the innovative body design which situates the necks in this unique staggered position allowing the right hand to both strum the guitar with the thumb and hammer out the bass notes with four fingers. Both necks are reachable in a single hand span.
- the Fuccion is designed to be an efficient way for the user to play both the electric guitar and bass guitar simultaneously. This device can be used in the home or in a music performance. In one preferred embodiment of “Fuccion” of the present application will be applied various other model forms and sizes.
- the most important element of the Fuccion of the present application is the body of the instrument that allows for two separate necks to attach to it in this unique staggered position.
- the premise is to give the user ability to play together both a normal guitar and a bass guitar simultaneously.
- a guitar is a popular musical instrument that makes sound by the playing of its (typically) six strings with the sound being projected either acoustically or through electrical amplification (for an acoustic guitar or an electric guitar, respectively). It is typically played by strumming or plucking the strings with the right hand while fretting the strings with the left hand.
- the guitar is a type of chordophone, traditionally constructed from wood and strung with either nylon or steel strings and distinguished from other chordophones by its construction and tuning. The modern guitar was preceded by the lute, the vihuela, the four-course Renaissance guitar, and the five-course baroque guitar, all of which contributed to the development of the modern six-string instrument.
- the bass guitar (also called electric bass, or simply bass) is a stringed instrument played primarily with the fingers or thumb, by plucking, slapping, popping, tapping, thumping, or picking with a plectrum, often known as a pick.
- the bass guitar is similar in appearance and construction to an electric guitar, but with a longer neck and scale length, and four to six strings or courses.
- the bass guitar is a transposing instrument, as it is notated in bass clef an octave higher than it sounds (as is the double bass) to avoid excessive ledger lines. Like the electric guitar, the bass guitar is plugged into an amplifier and speaker for live performances.
- a multi-neck guitar is a guitar that has multiple fingerboard necks. They exist in both electric and acoustic versions. Although multi-neck guitars are quite common today, they are not a modern invention. Examples of multi-neck guitars and lutes go back at least to the Renaissance. Today, the most common type of multi-neck guitar is the double neck guitar, of which the most common version is an electric guitar with twelve strings on the upper neck, while the lower neck has the normal six. Combination six-string and bass guitar are also used, as well as a fretless guitar with a regular fretted guitar, or any other combination of guitar neck and pickup styles. There are also acoustic versions. Two necks allows the guitarist to switch quickly and easily between guitar sounds without taking the time to change guitars.
- the guitar body ( 10 ) is connected to the main body ( 1 ), with the guitar body connected to the guitar neck ( 11 ) which leads into the guitar head ( 12 ) and the tuning metal guitar knobs ( 13 ) that tune the guitar strings ( 14 ) that is held down by the metal guitar string hook ( 15 ) that is located under the guitar resonator ( 16 ) that has the guitar stabilizer ( 17 ).
- the bass guitar is a stringed instrument played primarily with the fingers or thumb, by plucking, slapping, popping, tapping, thumping, or picking with a plectrum, often known as a pick.
- the bass guitar is similar in appearance and construction to an electric guitar, but with a longer neck and scale length, and four to six strings or courses.
- the bass guitar is a transposing instrument, as it is notated in bass clef an octave higher than it sounds (as is the double bass) to avoid excessive ledger lines.
- the bass guitar is plugged into an amplifier and speaker for live performances.
- the bass guitar Since the 1960s, the bass guitar has largely replaced the double bass in popular music as the bass instrument in the rhythm section. While types of bass lines vary widely from one style of music to another, the bassist usually fulfills a similar role: anchoring the harmonic framework and establishing the beat. Many styles of music utilize the bass guitar, including rock, metal, pop, punk rock, country, reggae, gospel, blues, and jazz. It is often a soloing instrument in jazz, jazz fusion, Latin, funk, progressive rock and other rock and metal styles.
- Bass bodies are typically made of wood, although other materials such as graphite have also been used. While a wide variety of woods are suitable for use in the body, neck, and fret board of the bass guitar, the most common type of wood used for the body is alder, for the neck is maple, and for the fret board is rosewood. Other commonly used woods include mahogany, maple, ash, walnut, and poplar for bodies, mahogany for necks, and maple and ebony for fret boards.
- Exotic materials include woods such as bubinga, wenge, ovangkol, ebony and goncalo alves.
- Graphite composite is used to make lightweight necks.
- Exotic woods are used on more expensive instruments: for example, Alembic uses cocobolo as a body or top layer material because of its attractive grain.
- Warwick bass guitars are also well known for exotic hardwoods: most of the necks are made of ovangkol, and the fingerboards wenge or ebony. Solid bubinga bodies are also used for tonal and aesthetic qualities.
- neck-through A common feature of more expensive basses is “neck-through” construction. Instead of milling the body from a single piece of wood (or “bookmatched” halves) and then attaching the neck into a pocket (so-called “bolt-on” design), neck-through bases are constructed first by assembling the neck, which may comprise one, three, five or more layers of wood in vertical stripes, which are longer than the length of the fretboard. To this elongated neck, the body is attached as two wings, which may also be made up of several layers. The entire bass is then milled and shaped. Many players believe neck-through construction provides better sustain and a mellower tone than bolt-on neck construction.
- the number of frets installed on a bass guitar neck may vary.
- the original Fender basses had 20 frets, and most bass guitars have between 20 and 24 frets or fret positions. Instruments with between 24 and 36 frets (2 and 3 octaves) also exist.
- Electric guitars can have solid, semi-hollow, or hollow bodies; solid bodies produce little sound without amplification.
- Electromagnetic pickups convert the vibration of the steel strings into signals, which are fed to an amplifier through a cable or radio transmitter. The sound is frequently modified by other electronic devices or the natural distortion of valves (vacuum tubes) in the amplifier.
- the electric guitar is used extensively in jazz, blues, R & B, and rock and roll.
- the electric bass guitar is similar in tuning to the traditional double bass viol. Hybrids of acoustic and electric guitars are also common. There are also more exotic varieties, such as guitars with two, three, or rarely four necks, all manner of alternate string arrangements, fretless fingerboards (used almost exclusively on bass guitars, meant to emulate the sound of a stand-up bass), 5.1 surround guitar, and such.
- piezoelectric pickups which function as transducers to provide a sound closer to that of an acoustic guitar with the flip of a switch or knob, rather than switching guitars.
- piezoelectric pickups and magnetic pickups are sometimes known as hybrid guitars.
- the invention consists in a compound musical device comprising: a main body connected to a neck that leads into the bass head that has attached bass tuning knobs that tunes the attached bass strings that are held by the bass string hooks that are located under the bass guitar resonator, with the audio knobs that adjust the sound with the audio bar; with the above located guitar body that leads into the guitar neck that ends on the guitar head that has the connected tuning guitar knobs which tune the connecting guitar strings which are grounded by the guitar string hooks located under the guitar resonator that has a connecting guitar stabilizer.
- the body of the compound musical device of the present application may be made of wood to allow to not conduct electricity, the same main body is allows for the users to use the bass instrument.
- the neck may be made of wood.
- the user can play musical notes either as a guitar or a bass.
- the bass head is made from wood and may be located on the end of the neck.
- the bass tuning knobs are made of metal to properly tune the bass guitar and could be adjusted by the user to play alternating sounds.
- the bass guitar strings can be either nylon or steel strings and may be tuned by the bass tuning knobs by the user.
- the bass string hook are made from metal to properly ground the bass guitar strings.
- the bass guitar resonator is made of wood and may be able to easily receive the sounds from the bass guitar strings.
- the audio knobs are made of metal and have a chrome finish, they control the volume, tone and pitch of the device.
- the level bar controls the pitch of the sound of the device and is made of metal.
- the guitar body is made of wood and connected to the main body.
- the guitar neck allows the user to play music using the device's guitar capabilities and is made of wood.
- the guitar head is made of wood and allows for the tuning of the guitar.
- the tuning guitar knobs are made of metal and tune the device's guitar capability to perform music.
- the guitar strings are made either from nylon of metal and are necessary to perform music.
- the guitar string hook is made of metal and securely keep the guitar strings taut to play music.
- the guitar resonator receives the sounds from the guitar strings efficiently.
- the guitar stabilizer accurately receives the sound from the guitar strings. It is to be understood that the body is the most important part of the Fuccion.
- the Fuccion body as shown in FIGS. 10 and 11 is formed by two triangles shifted in a way that one overlaps the other one to a minimum. In a way only one of the corner of the two triangles overlaps keeping together the two components.
- the neck are secured to the outmost tips of the triangles via fastening means that can be bolts, nuts, nails, screw, and pins.
- the necks are interchangeable: therefore the player can have the six string guitar on the top triangle or on the bottom one.
- the top triangle is the one that is on the top of the instrument. When it's played is the one closer to the head of the player.
- the bottom triangle is the one that is physically in the bottom, when is played is the one that is closed to the ground.
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